IDW era supposed be liberating Metal Gear Solid: The board game at the end of this year, but after a succession of delays, the company has decided to move away from the project.
How Dice breaker report, after delaying the game from “early 2019” to “summer 2020” and then “2021”, IDW considered that they needed to make even more adjustments to the original design and that “Ultimately, the amount of time it took taking time to implement these changes has just grown more than expected and our window to send the game on time closed “.
While IDW’s involvement with the game is already over, they aren’t necessarily curtains for the game itself. Creator Emerson Matsuuchi offered to pay IDW to get the game off the line and on the shelves, and when they turned down that offer, he began the process of collaborating with publisher Nazca Games to get the Metal Gear Konami license itself.
WWhile Matsuuchi is “optimistic” about his chances, given the complexity of international licensing, who knows how he will be shaken.